MCKINNEY, Texas — A McKinney, Texas, structure fire response on Aug. 30, 2025 resulted in nine career firefighters injured, including two with serious injuries, while conducting interior operations in a large residence, according to the NIOSH Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program report.
Incident overview
At 9:10 p.m. Aug. 30, 2025, McKinney emergency dispatch received a 911 call reporting a fire in the master bedroom of a two-story, single-family residential home. The fire department dispatched multiple units including engines, trucks, medics, and a battalion chief. Crews arrived, conducted an aggressive interior push and coordinated search operations on the second floor in extremely smoky, zero-visibility conditions.
Despite efforts to locate and extinguish the fire, interior crews encountered difficult fire behavior and became low on breathing air. Two firefighters ran out of air and a Mayday was called; they and seven others were transported to local hospitals for smoke inhalation, overexertion, and dehydration. The incident highlights persistent risks associated with interior structural firefighting and the importance of air management, size-up, communications, and incident command practices…